Bashar Warda

Bashar Matti Warda
Archbishop of Erbil of the Chaldeans
Native name	بشار متي وردة
Church	Chaldean Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Erbil
Elected	25 May 2009
Installed	24 May 2010
Predecessor	Yacoub Denha Scher
Other posts	Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Zaku (2007–2013)
Orders
Ordination	8 May 1993 by Patriarch Raphael I Bidawid
Consecration	3 July 2010 by Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly
Personal details
Born	(1969-06-15) 15 June 1969 Baghdad, Iraq
Denomination	Chaldean Catholic

Bashar Matti Warda (Arabic: بشار متي وردة‎; born 15 June 1969 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a Chaldean Catholic cleric and the current Archbishop of Erbil, Iraq.

Warda joined the Saint Peter's Chaldean seminary in Baghdad and was ordained a priest in 1993. In 1995 he joined the Redemptorist order of Flanders in Belgium. After receiving his master's at the Catholic University of Louvain in 1999 he returned to Iraq.

Warda was apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Zaku from July 2007 until its merger with the Diocese of Amadiyah in June 2013.

In 2009 the Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church elected him Archbishop of the Archeparchy of Erbil. After Pope Benedict XVI gave his consent to this election in 2010 he was consecrated on 3 July of the same year.

External links

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• Archbishop Bashar Warda, Catholic Hierarchy